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Need

verb
(past & past part. needed; pres. part. needing)
1.
Require as useful, just, or proper.  Synonyms: ask, call for, demand, involve, necessitate, postulate, require, take.  "Success usually requires hard work" , "This job asks a lot of patience and skill" , "This position demands a lot of personal sacrifice" , "This dinner calls for a spectacular dessert" , "This intervention does not postulate a patient's consent"
2.
Have need of.  Synonyms: require, want.
3.
Have or feel a need for.
noun
1.
A condition requiring relief.  Synonym: demand.  "God has no need of men to accomplish His work" , "There is a demand for jobs"
2.
Anything that is necessary but lacking.  Synonym: want.  "I tried to supply his wants"
3.
The psychological feature that arouses an organism to action toward a desired goal; the reason for the action; that which gives purpose and direction to behavior.  Synonyms: motivation, motive.  "He acted with the best of motives"
4.
A state of extreme poverty or destitution.  Synonyms: indigence, pauperism, pauperization, penury.  "A general state of need exists among the homeless"



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"Need" Quotes from Famous Books



... I left, they had not entered it. Everyone says that it must have been fired on purpose, for the flames seem to have burst out in all parts at once. No one in the town thought that I had an enemy in the world, and all have been wondering who could have had a grudge against me. Of course we need not go very far to guess who was at ...
— The Treasure of the Incas • G. A. Henty

... would have marked the manner in which the sails upon the "Sea Witch" had been secured, and the way in which she was moored. If need be, three minutes would have covered her with canvass, and slipping her cable she could in that space of time, had the order been issued from her quarter deck, have been under way and looking once more seaward. Whatever her business, it was very clear that promptness, ...
— The Sea-Witch - or, The African Quadroon A Story of the Slave Coast • Maturin Murray

... Vaughan met with at Weimar satisfied him that he need go no further; neither the Landgrave nor the Duke of Lunenberg would be likely to venture on a course which the elector so obviously feared. He, therefore, gave up his ...
— The Reign of Henry the Eighth, Volume 1 (of 3) • James Anthony Froude

... baffled doctor fumed in the conference that he had with Ewbert apart, "he doesn't really need any medicine. There's nothing the matter with him, and I only wanted to give him something to put an edge to his appetite. He's got cranky living here alone; but there is such a thing as starving to death, and ...
— A Pair of Patient Lovers • William Dean Howells

... Dragging about in this dreary, heartless way is all that ails me, and reading for my degree would be the best cure. I mean to work hard for honours, and, if possible, delude myself with hopes of success. Work is the need. Here, there is this one comfort. There is no one to talk to, no birds in last year's nest, sons absent, daughters disposed of, but, unluckily, the Pastoress, under a mistaken sense of kindness, has asked the Vicar's son to walk with me, ...
— Dynevor Terrace (Vol. I) - or, The Clue of Life • Charlotte M. Yonge


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